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School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc

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Freemount, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Domhnall Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0366, Page 111

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    and it was then that the farms were sub-divided among members of the family on marriage.
    In every parish there was a rent - warner whose duty it was to spy and report any improvements etc effected in any farm. If a farmer could afford to kill a pig for his own use, he did so secretly. The meat when salted was put in a meat-tub, kept in some out-house, and covered well with straw to prevent its being seen by the rent-warner during his weekly rounds.
    A story in connection with those times was told to me by a local farmer some years ago. When he was a boy, his mother used take a cup of tea after dinner every day.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Goulding
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    James Goulding
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gortnascregga, Co. Cork